The Continuing Disgrace of Anthony Weiner, Brought to You by the Liberal MediaBy Andrew Marcus | June 03, 2013

From time to time, Americans manage to elect extraordinarily corruptible people—and these walking moral catastrophes, in turn, pass laws for us, enforce those laws for us, presume to lecture us, and run, in general, as much of our lives as they can gets their hands on. It's not that we don't care about being governed by vulgarians, and it's not that we're pathologically gullible—so what is it? What's the secret of their success? How do they hold on to power for so long? The short answer is: the media—with a little help from human nature.

Such was the case with Weinergate, which most people still regard as a sex scandal and not the story of a scandalous character. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner has recently begun his campaign to become the next mayor of New York City, and given New York’s bizarre and inexplicable gluttony for punishment, he has a real chance of being elected. Then again, maybe New Yorkers are catching on – the fact that Weiner was booed last weekend at a parade offers a sliver of hope.

Andrew Breitbart took a proverbial rhetorical bullet by exposing Weiner, putting everything on the line to give the people of New York fair warning that their would-be mayor had all the libido, ego, judgment, honesty, and self-control of a drunken teenager. You can see this sad episode on display in my movie Hating Breitbart, now available everywhere, much to the disgraced Congressman’s chagrin.

To this day, however, most people believe that Weiner was forced to resign his seat in Congress because he had tweeted, in the words of Barbara Walters, “flattering” photos of his otherwise private parts to a 21 year-old college student on the other side of the country – not because he had fabricated a federal crime, claiming that he had been “hacked,” and willfully allowed his surrogates to publicly suggest that Andrew Breitbart had something to do with it. In the end, of course, Weiner apologized to Breitbart – but that was only because Breitbart, as it turns out, had the goods.

This wasn’t the first time Andrew was involved in a non-sex scandal. In fact, Andrew Breitbart’s New Media skills were originally forged, and ultimately informed by, his experience working with Matt Drudge during the Clinton-Lewinksy scandal in the late 1990s. While the particulars of the Clinton and Weiner scandals are very different, they share one very important thing in common – in both cases, the perpetrator knowingly defamed an innocent and allowed others to obscure his misdeeds with the mind-numbing mantra, “It’s all about the sex.”

In the case of Clinton, rather than fess up, he opted instead to lie about somebody: Monica Lewinsky, stalker. In the case of Weiner, rather than fess up, he opted instead to lie about somebody: Andrew Breitbart, hacker. And in both cases, people were far more disturbed by their dishonesty than by their sexual foibles – I mean, who among us hasn’t cigardomized their intern or tweeted a photo of their engorged genitals?

Most importantly, in both cases there was a complicit media machine in place that was all too willing to repeat the "It's all about the sex" mantra - and other distracting mantras - on behalf of their pet politician. The notion that Monica Lewinsky was an unstable stalker gained footing only because there was a media megaphone willing to repeat it; the idea that Andrew Breitbart, or anybody else for that matter, might have hacked a sitting congressman's Twitter account seemed feasible because it was repeated ad nauseum. The media, by and large, circle the wagons for their own—that is, for creatures of the Left. Happily, there are always exceptions—in Hating Breitbart, you can watch Chris Hayes and Jeffrey Toobin play interference for Weiner, but you can also watch Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer do their jobs.

Thankfully, Bill Clinton is old enough now that his sexual appetites are no longer considered a destructive social force, except perhaps by his scarred victims – and he’s lied so much that nobody really takes him that seriously anymore. His sole purpose in life now is to regret the presidency of Barack Obama and try not to do too much damage to his wife’s presumptive future presidential campaign. As for Anthony Weiner, his future in politics remains to be seen. Given the overall quality of political discourse in this country, the moral compass of our so-called mainstream media, and our sophisticated electorate, I’m afraid he’ll do just fine.

Touchy, touchy. Despite Team Anthony Weiner's best efforts at political rehabilitation, there's just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As the New York Post reported this week, Weiner had a bit of a snit fit when a local Democratic official boldly slammed his sexting habits with underage girls.

Chris Owens, the Dems' state committee member in northwest Brooklyn, called out the skeezy ex-congressman at a mayoral candidate forum. "I am outraged and disgusted by you," Owens told Weiner. "Both by what you did and by the fact that you have the arrogance to run for mayor. I want to understand how you explain to us how you used a public facility to tweet offensive material to ... minors you did not know, you then lied about it ... and now you come back."

The hubristic horn-dog bared his teeth, got "snippy" and responded by snarling defensively that he's "going to win this election and I'm going to govern this city really well."

Don't get ahead of yourself there, Tweety Boy. If more rank-and-file Democrats join Owens in focusing like a laser on Weiner's underage-girl problem instead of soft-pedaling his "past issues" as "consensual" "online dalliances," Icky-rus will fall again.

Weiner's puff-piece enablers at The New York Times have done their best to downplay the scandal's sordid pedo angle. He's just a luvin' hubby and conscientious dad who came clean about a momentary lapse in social media judgment. And he accepts responsibility, dontcha know? No crime, no foul, right?

Not quite. All the celebutante fashion photo shoots with wife Huma Abedin can't insulate Weiner from the truly trashy truth. Remember: Democratic women on Capitol Hill stood by Weiner and his Twitter tawdriness until a critical moment almost exactly two years ago this week: It was the moment news broke that among the bevy of online groupies he hit on, Weiner had communicated with at least one teenage high school student in Delaware.

Weiner had flirted with the underage girl through Twitter direct messages using a macho line about donning "cape and tights" — a quip he had also used with an adult woman with whom he had exchanged raunchier sexually explicit messages. Conservative blogger Patrick Frey (patterico.com) first uncovered the evidence. Fox News then broke the news in the mainstream press that Delaware police had visited the girl's home and questioned her about her online communications with Weiner. The 17-year-old said she had met Weiner on a school trip to Washington.

At his watershed press conference circus on June 6, 2011, Weiner claimed he "never had an intention of having a relationship with underage women" and blustered that the girls he communicated with "weren't young, per se." Per se? Just a few days later, Weiner was forced to admit that he had exchanged "at least five private messages on Twitter" with the Delaware girl, not two messages as initially reported. He also denied that any messages to the teen were "explicit" or "indecent."

But can the serial liar be believed? Over the past several weeks as he has attempted to "move past" the past, Weiner has admitted that more creepoid photos or messages may surface. He told WNYC: "People may decide they want to come forward and say, here's another email that I got or another photo. I'm certainly not going to do that. So people may hear things that are true, they may hear things that are not true, but I'm going to try to keep being focused on issues that are important to New York City."

Silly me, but perhaps the predatory perv behavior of one of the Big Apple's leading mayoral candidates should be an issue of concern. As I pointed out when the late, great Andrew Breitbart broke Weinergate wide open two years ago, stories about Weiner's hot pursuits of young Capitol Hill interns date back to 2001. At least one young woman told liberal Vanity Fair magazine that Weiner hunted down her email address, bragged about riding on Air Force One and extended an invitation to visit his office in person.

Trolling habits die hard. And all the sex therapy in the world can't cure pathological skeeviness. The man who wants to be New York's mayor was willing to blame truth-seeker Breitbart for "hacking" into his rancid social media accounts. He was willing to mislead his lifelong Democratic pals and enlist them in his phony smear conspiracy to cover his lurid macking tracks.

This is not merely a "private matter." It's about public fitness for office. Anthony Weiner thinks he should be put back in political power because he effectively champions "middle-class" values. Middle-class New Yorkers who value decency, honesty and safe work and online environments for your young daughters, speak now or forever hold your peace.

I don`t think his sexting is even relevant. The left wants to throw him under the bus because they are cowards and the right doesn`t like him because he is the biggest dick in the room always and tells it like it is.

I don`t think his sexting is even relevant. The left wants to throw him under the bus because they are cowards and the right doesn`t like him because he is the biggest dick in the room always and tells it like it is.